Pound's music

Got time for a trip to Buffalo to hear the compositions of Ezra Pound?

Pound's music was influenced in this regard by such sources as Sappho's poetry, Catullus, Provencal verse by northern Italian troubadours and the work of George Antheil, the enfant terrible of modernist composers. It is, said one critic, "of unsurpassing beauty and illuminates the practice of 'prosody'—the elusive craft of setting texts to music."

Tell me how it goes.



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I'll Tell You Something, This Thing Both Weighs and Costs More than a Pound...

This is how freakishly weak-willed I am... I walk into The Bookshelf today and see Pound's ugly mug on the front of Bookforum. I read the essay (during the last 250 words my child is screaming in his stroller and people are looking at me like I'm committing some form of academic neglect), walk up to the counter and say, "How much is the Pound collected?" When the clerk checks the computer and says, "$69.95" I swallow hard and reply in the raspy voice of the walking damned, "Can you please order it?" I have no money. I know I have no money. And yet the man's name compels me... When I got home I held my hands out plaintively and justified it like this: "But it's everything! EV-ER-Y-THING!" I have a real problem.



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Good review. I occasionally feel guilty for not having read more Pound, but this'll help me get over it.

Better than Ezra

Finally in the Library of America** series.



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The Pound Era

A N Wilson on Kenner's new book.



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